Just heard from a fb friend in Nepal. Please pray for them. Rescue Hopes in Landslide Fade in Nepal KATMANDU, Nepal — As rescuers struggled to dig through piles of rock, mud and trees, a Nepalese official said Sunday that there was no chance of finding any of the more than 150 people who are believed to have been buried by a landslide in northern Nepal. Rescuers have so far recovered only eight bodies since the landslide early Saturday blocked a mountain river, causing the water to form a lake that was threatening to burst and sweep several villages. More rain on Sunday hampered search attempts. “We have no chance of finding any of the missing people alive under this pile of debris,” said the official, Yadav Prasad Koirala, who runs the government’s Department of Natural Disaster Management. “We have names of 159 people who are believed to be missing and buried, but there could be even more people.” Residents survey the scene of a landslide near Nepals border with China. Landslide in Nepal Kills at Least 8; Hundreds Are Missing AUG. 2, 2014 The Indian National Disaster Response Force has recovered at least 82 bodies after a landslide in a village in western India. Otherworldly Downpour Preceded Landslide in IndiaAUG. 2, 2014 Mr. Koirala said it was even difficult for bulldozers and heavy equipment to move the debris that crushed dozens of houses in Mankha, about 75 miles east of Katmandu, Nepal’s capital. Gopal Parajuli, the chief government administrator in the area, said that the water level and mud were making the rescue work very difficult, and that army troops had used explosives to try to alleviate a dangerous buildup of water. The controlled explosions managed to knock down part of an earth wall that had blocked a river and created a temporary dam, allowing some water to flow out, but much of it still remained trapped, Mr. Parajuli said. He said the amount of water flowing out of the dam and pouring in was almost the same Sunday morning as it was the previous day, keeping the water level stable. A Mankha resident who was among the dozens of people injured by the landslide said he feared his entire village had been wiped out. “There are nearly 100 people in the 60 houses in my village and 20 more people in the neighboring village who were buried by the landslide,” said the resident, Durga Lal Shrestha, from his hospital bed in Katmandu, where he was flown by helicopter. “All of them are likely dead.”
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